The West of England & South Wales Women’s History Network
18th annual conference Saturday July 2nd 2011
The University of the West of England, Bristol

For love or money? historical perspectives on gender and emotional labour

Papers range widely including emotional labour performed by relatives, friends, workers and social activists within households, families, workplaces and institutions. While the main focus is Britain and Ireland from the 18th to 20th centuries there are also papers on emotional labour in Europe, the USA and in late Medieval Britain,. All are warmly invited to attend.

Key speakers
Professor Leonore Davidoff, University of Essex

Professor Michael Roper, University of Essex

Dr Janet Fink, Open University

Dr Lucy Delap, St Catharine’s College Cambridge

Other confirmed speakers

Dr Sandra Holton Senior Research Fellow, IHR, Domestic Service and Friendship: An Examination of Emotional Ties with Employers and their Families evident in the Letters of Eliza Oldham, General Maid.

Zsuzsanna Sütõ-Egeressy University of Szeged, Hungary, For love and money: Hungarian women writers on the literary market at the middle of the 19th century.

Dr Emily West, University of Reading, ‘Between Slavery and Freedom’: The Expulsion and Enslavement of Free Women of Color in the Antebellum US South

Dr Megan Doolittle, Open University, Providing as a form of caring: Fatherhood and poverty in England 1890-1910

Dr Odette Clarke University of Limerick ‘Without chastisement we cannot be called servants of God’: an examination of the emotion work performed by Caroline Wyndham-Quin, countess of Dunraven (1790-1870), and her daughter Anna Maria Monsell (1814 -1855), when confronted with the death of a young child.

Helen Kendall, Bath Spa University, Family or friend? emotional labour in managing the death of an old friend

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